Overview – IronPort Systems 4108GL User Manual

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Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation
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Overview

The Switch 4108GL has several built-in tools for monitoring, analyzing, and
troubleshooting switch and network operation:

Status:

Includes options for displaying general switch information, man-

agement address data, port status, port and trunk group statistics, MAC
addresses detected on each port or VLAN, and STP, IGMP, and VLAN data
(page 17-3)

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Counters:

Display details of traffic volume on individual ports (page

17-9)

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Event Log

: Lists switch operating events (“Using the Event Log To

Identify Problem Sources” on page 16)

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Alert Log:

Lists network occurrences detected by the switch—in the

Status | Overview screen of the web browser interface (page 4-20).

Configurable trap receivers:

Uses SNMP to enable management sta-

tions on your network to receive SNMP traps from the switch (page 12-8).

Port monitoring (mirroring):

Copy all traffic from the specified ports

to a designated monitoring port (page 17-23).

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Link test and ping test—analysis tools in troubleshooting situations—are
described in chapter 18, “Troubleshooting”. See page 18-17.

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